Is Samsung Working on Its Own Mobile Browser?

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September 25, 2012

Samsung’s Android customers get their pick of a pretty broad selection of smartphone web browsers and soon, at least according to ETNews, Samsung is looking to follow up on its own Android UI additions with its own fully-fledged mobile browser. The company is reportedly seeking out WebKit engineers to work on the project at Samsung’s Silicon Valley R&D center — where work is already underway on the Chrome mobile rival. The open-source WebKit engine already underpins not only Google’s own browser, but also its pre-ICS Android web browser — and Apple’s Safari. We got in touch with Samsung who politely told us that it “doesn’t comment on rumor or speculation.”

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Is Samsung working on its own mobile browser? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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SkySQL Launches Cloud SQL Suite and Enterprise Suite

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September 25, 2012

A free-to-use open source deployment tool for putting MySQL-compatible MariaDB into the Amazon EC2 cloud and a range of enterprise subscription packages build out SkySQL’s portfolio.

Android OS Updates: Who’s the Decider?

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September 25, 2012

Samsung has rolled out the first official Android 4.1 Jelly Bean updates for its Galaxy S III smartphone. Customers in Poland are reportedly getting the update first. Samsung will apparently roll out the update to customers in other countries later this month. A slew of Android devices that are ready for Jelly Bean are being released before the end of the year. However, rolling out an update to Android isn’t a smooth process because “it’s business and politics and everyone has a certain power play,” said Michael Morgan, a senior analyst at ABI Research.

Apigee Builds New API Management Service for the Programmable Data Center

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September 25, 2012

To address the new reality of our data driven world, we need better ways to manage the network. Google and later Amazon Web Services (AWS), embarked on that journey long ago. Now the market is beginning to catch up with new networked environments that are controlled more by software than physical switches, routers and controllers.

Apigee is now providing management for these Software-Defined Networking (SDN) environments with a new API management offering needed to build, manage and scale applications for the programmable data center.

This is not a simple thing to understand. But neither was the web in its earliest days. In that other time, developers built software on the servers. They created what we now call “stacks.” As the web gained momentum, developers began thinking of new ways to build applications. By 2006, AWS emerged with a way for developers to create stacks on virtual servers. These virtual servers still had to run on physical hardware but the virtual machines could be controlled through automated methods.

Ubuntu Made Easy Shortens the Learning Curve

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September 25, 2012

Ubuntu is among the most popular and user-friendly Linux operating systems you will find. That said, Ubuntu can be intimidating and frustrating to computer users just stepping out of the World of Windows. Nothing beats learning how to use the Linux operating system like hands-on discovery. Having someone to coach you through the questions does a lot to remove frustrations and shorten the learning curve. One learning tool most Linux distributions lack is a detailed start-up guide. A simple-to-read set of explanations jump starts your ability to really use and enjoy open source software.

Huawei’s Building its Own Mobile Operating System ‘Just in Case’ There’s Trouble Ahead

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September 25, 2012

Huawei’s boss must have been a Boy Scout, since he’s taken its “be prepared’ motto deeply to his heart. CEO Wan Biao has told Reuters that his company is working on its own mobile OS just in case its partners “won’t let us use their system[s] one day.” We don’t expect to ever see the software, but given the fractious nature of the business, it’s more likely to be a barbed hint at Google and Microsoft to keep sending flowers and chocolates to Shenzhen. That said, given that local rival ZTE is building phones with Firefox’s OS, we’d politely suggest that it rescues another beloved OS from the clutches of HP’s indifference.

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Huawei’s building its own mobile operating system ‘just in case’ there’s trouble ahead originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Sep 2012 07:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Red Hat Sees Revenues Rise, Profits Drop

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September 25, 2012

The Linux distributor has reported a 15 percent rise in revenues compared to the same quarter last year, but a 12.5 percent fall in net profit. The company is nonetheless among the top five in Forbes magazine’s most innovative companies list.

New Versions of GTK+, GLib and Clutter

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September 25, 2012

The new versions of programming libraries GLib, GTK+ and Clutter, used predominantly within the GNOME ecosystem, herald the approach of GNOME 3.6.

Rogue Wave Adds Threadspotter Support for Cray XE Supercomputers

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September 25, 2012

Rogue Wave Software has announced that their latest ThreadSpotter 2012.1 release with support for Cray XE supercomputers.

Scientists and engineers expressed to Rogue Wave their need to employ ThreadSpotter to optimize the performance of parallel applications on the Cray XE platform. As Cray Supercomputers are strategic platforms for our customers, we are happy to quickly respond to these requests so our products stay at the cutting-edge of the HPC market,” stated Chris Gottbrath, Product Manager at Rogue Wave. “Rogue Wave’s ThreadSpotter 2012.1 will help Cray XE users be more productive and produce more efficient programs.”

According to the company, ThreadSpotter helps eliminate performance issues by identifying problematic sites in the code where a change could make the program far more efficient. Read the Full Story.

Why Doesn’t Linux Do What Windows, OS X, Solaris, etc. Does?

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Jerry Cooperstein

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September 25, 2012

Attendees of our Linux developer courses come from a variety of backgrounds and many are versed in other operating systems.